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Description of Static Non-steady State Flux Chambers Used in Field Studies
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William Koskinen
John Baker
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Rodney T. Venterea (Rod)

Soil Scientist

Project Lead Scientist, ARS Soil & Water Mgmt Research Unit, St. Paul, MN

Participant in USDA-ARS GRACEnet project 

GRACEnet overview (PDF May 13, 2008) by Ron Follet

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate, Univ. of Minnesota

Member of faculty in Graduate Program in Land and Atmospheric Science

Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Quality

 

Disciplinary Area: Biogeochemistry and soil physics.

Current Projects   Publications   Lab Group  Seminars 

 

RECENT ARTICLES and PRESENTATIONS:

 

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment:

Special Issue: Biogenic GHGs in North America 

(Dec 2012 - link to full issue)

 

Beyond the Frontier Interview 

(Dec 2012 - link to Audio MP3)

 

 

Broadcast Urea Decreases N2O but Increases NO Emissions Compared with Conventional and Shallow-Applied Anhydrous Ammonia in a Coarse-Textured Soil(PDF)

 

 

 

Fertilizer Source and Tillage Effects on Yield-Scaled Nitrous Oxide Emissions in a Corn Cropping System (PDF)

 

Fertilizer Management Effects on Nitrate Leaching and Indirect Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Irrigated Potato Production

(PDF)

 

Simplified Method for Quantifying Theoretical Underestimation of Chamber-Based Trace Gas Fluxes (PDF); Example calculations(Excel file)

 

Urea Decreases Nitrous Oxide Emissions Compared with Anhydrous Ammonia in a Minnesota Corn Cropping System (PDF)

 

Polymer-Coated Urea Maintains Potato Yields and Reduces Nitrous Oxide Emissions in a Minnesota Loamy Sand (PDF)

STAINLESS STEEL GAS FLUX CHAMBER CONSTRUCTION

Current Research Interests:

·   Measurement & mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture  

·   Modeling soil nitrogen transformation & soil-atmosphere gas exchange

· Tools for designing and evaluating chamber methods

o Simplified method for quantifying underestimation of chamber-based fluxes; Worksheet

Venterea, R.T., K.A. Spokas and J.M. Baker. 2009

o Accuracy and precision worksheet Instructions for using worksheet

o Venterea, R.T. and J.M. Baker. 2008. GRACEnet Protocol.

Description of static non-steady state flux chambers used in field studies

 

 


     
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